Im sorry but the first and last just look like weird willys/ vibrators.the T bone could be a map of the place their leaving or going to.The second one is obviousley The Holy Hand grenade of Antioch, ( thrice shall be the nunber :O )and the skatebooard thing is just mouldy and hideous, Never never try to "get with the kidz" in icing and sponge cake.

There really should be some kind of application-screening process for cake decorators. Seriously. Creativity can only go so far before it becomes something like that Corset Cake. Just because you can pipe frosting in cursive doesn't mean you should be allowed full access.

That second one looks at any of my failed attempts to be artsy in cake making, which is why I now buy all my cakes at Costco...they may be hideous, but the recipients fall into a sugar high so quickly, they soon forget how outrageous the cake looks!

And any parent with a skater kid or a skater poser (like mine was) can recognize the Element logo on the skateboard - so that gave it away...but hideous nonetheless.

And where the heck do you buy a corset like that? Might make for an interesting Halloween costume!

I believe the first cake says "Hiep Hoera", the cheer at the end of the Dutch version of the Happy Birthday song. Growing up in Belgium I was taught to write a capital H like that, though they're supposed to be wider so they don't look like Xs.

I googled African beer basket,and darned if it doesn't look just like that cake! Now if i could only figure out what it's supposed to do. A basket's an unlikely place to keep beer--it'll all run out before you can drink it, yes?

Unfortunately, Googling Xiep Xoem did not help solve anything about that first cake--all the answers were in Chinese. I think the poster who mentioned Hiep Hoera may be onto something. At least there's a birthday connection there. And those do look like H's if you squint a little.

No one seems to have even mentioned the LOVELY job the wreckerator did matching greens on the Future Love Mrs. Cake. BLEEGH. I do think someone was onto something with Halloween Costume... though only if you were dressing as a zombie stripper.

Why on Earth would Adam and Abbie's decorator make a smooth board and not wheels? At fist glance I thought the last one was one of those squeezy stress dolls whose eyes bulge when the thing is squoze.

WV: halitos - the horrificly bad breath one can only get after eating Nacho Cheese Doritos.

By the way, you must look for "hiep hiep hoera" videos on youtube! I started with an album from Sesamstraat (the Dutch version of Sesame Street)and was briefly distracted by the many Sesame Street videos, but if you can pull yourself away from Ernie's powerful grip, some of the videos are fantastic!

How do all of you know what an IUD in a uterus looks like?? This is not an image currently resident in my brain, and unless you've all been teaching Health class and/or dissecting humans, I'm curious to know where one might pick up this info.

As for the cakes: that skateboard would SO not roll. It's got fluffy wheels, for heaven's sake. Fluffy objects, with the possible exception of my younger cat, do NOT roll.

When I saw the first cake, I first thought "Hellraiser"... but then I saw the 33 and figured "ok, Rolling Rock?"But then, you add the (apparently) Dutch inscription, and it's a multicultural cake - cactus, beer, and a Dutch cheer!

Oh, and I think I see a new trend starting: first there were pregnancy cakes, now there are birth control cakes! "Congrats on your IUD!"

@Gladys I know because every GYN I've EVER been to has one of those little insurance company distributed models to show you what your IUD will look like in your uterus.And really there's not much else exciting to do in a gynecologist's office besides look at the plastic models and posters.They look at you funny if they come in and you've already got your feet in the stirrups and you're yelling "YEEEEHAW".

Wow. I think I got all of them except Adam and Abbies. Untill I read the comments. Really a skateboard? Hmmm. Even though I know it was a T-bone I think it really did look like a wishbone jumping rope.

Re: African beer baskets. As someone raised in Africa, there are two versions of these (in the non-cakewreck world!) The cake here is shaped very much like a beer gourd, used very effectively to store home-made beer. Gourds are often beautifully decorated with geometric patterns, which have been wreckplicated here. A beer basket is a very finely woven basket, often somewhat gourd-shaped. No it is not watertight, you pour homemade beer (very cloudy, lots of suspended particles from the grain used) into the basket with a pot below, the fine weave of the basket filters the beer into a more drinkable form.

Ok, so I'm pretty sure that the skateboard cake is another example of parents subconsciously displaying favoritism for one of their children! Adam's part of the skateboard is 2/3 of the bottom and the entire "top" of the cake! All poor Abbie got was the left half of the bottom...and the number 3. Who got the number 1 you ask? Oh ya, the favorite child... Adam!

hah! im part of the under-14 set. I think the second one looks like a large pear in a quilt. and the skateboard one could be two teddy bears facing a humongous watermelon.The third one looks like...um...(racking brain for something that looks even remotely like the design) nope, doesn't look like anything. But if I had to choose, I'd say A.

Terry Lee said it first . . . T-Bone looks like an IUD/uterus! I couldn't figure out the salt shaker one, but skateboard sounds right to me! Also, the "beer basket" looks like a northwestern Chinese vase from Gansu Province (where I live, which is why I normally get to read Cake Wrecks before anyone else . . . it's my evening when it is posted in the States!)

Wow, you guys weren't kidding about the beer basket wreckerator website! It's a treasure trove of wreckiness! Everything is tilting to the right, sweaty and shiny, and just a little blurry around the edges. I'm especially partial to the pregnant Dora the Explorer. Although, I have to say, my son would kill for that Yugi-oh cake, no matter how wrecky it is.

Okay, I think that website (http://www.tiersofjoycakes.net/novelty.htm) is a cruel lie. I refuse to believe anyone who could make that divine Strawberry Shortcake house could also make that monstrosity of a Shrek cake.

Ok, so I was cruising around on the internet today for local bakers for my mom's wedding cake. Lo and behold I stumbled across the "African beer basket" photo on a local bakery's website. I screeched in terror/delight/hilarity and immediately turned around the laptop so my sister could see it (she visits this blog as well). Let's just say that their body of work is fully represented by that specimen. "Professional" bakers people! Professional!

WoW!!! I checked out the web-site that "Beer Basket came from, and some of those cakes are AMAZING!! (ans some are such awful crap!) How can there be such a difference in the cakes? Are some done while on a bender? BAFFLING!!

YOu know. when i first saw the first one....thats going to get confusing. Okay. When I initially viewed the first picture, I thought it was a voodoo doll hand with red pins stuck in. Then I looked again and I though it was actually SUPPOSED to look like a and goin through sparse acupuncture. Then I read the available possibilities I thought they were a joke, because o COuRSE it was an acupunctured hand.....though out of those I would say minnows attacking a log. :)

I believe that the inscription on the first one reads "Hiep Hoera". It's a dutch expression related to the English "Hip Hooray," commonly associated with birthdays. The first letter is just some strange cursive form of an "H."

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